2007 Palm Springs Film Festival Winners
The 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival has announced its jury and audience winners.
The New Voices New Visions Grand Jury Prize was given to Rafi Pitts‘ Iranian drama It’s Winter, the story of a woman left behind in a small Iranian town after her husband travels abroad looking for work.
The Special Jury Prize went to Verónica Chen’s Agua, an Argentinean drama about two swimmers — one trying to refute charges of doping, the other doing whatever he can to join the national team.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s old-fashioned spy melodrama The Lives of Others, winner of 7 German Academy Awards and the European Film Academy’s best film, was the audience choice for best narrative feature. The Lives of Others revolves around a Stasi spy who undergoes a change of heart after snooping into the lives of a playwright and his girlfriend.
Lucy Walker’s British documentary Blindsight, about a blind mountain climber who leads a group of blind Tibetans up Mt. Everest, received the audience award for best documentary feature.
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Award for best foreign-language film of the year went to Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale Pan’s Labyrinth.
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